Revolution of the Ants

If you've been sitting on the fence wondering if blogs were nothing but hoo-ha, the Daily Deal says social media, like blogging software and services, social networking and affinity group software are NOT the next bubble.

Says Andrew Anker, venture capitalist and vice president  of business development at Six Apart, the company that owns Moveable Type and Typepad, "The more time I spent on this, the more I realized that blogging is something more important than people think it is."

"We view blogging as a logical next form of communication," says David Hornik, a partner at August Capital. "Just as e-mail and instant messaging have had significant interest, I believe blogging will have similar scope and that it will be adopted widely." 

"I call this the revolution of the ants," says Mark Pincus, a serial entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Tribe Networks Inc., a social networking company in San Francisco. "There are all these disenfranchised people out there who now have power and a voice."

UPDATE: I was distracted and forgot to credit Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion